Ex-Client Seeking $1B Wants Personhood For MF Global

By Amanda Bransford

Law360, New York (February 21, 2012, 12:59 PM ET) -- A former MF Global Inc. client hoping to recover more than $1 billion in lost customer funds asked the collapsed brokerage's trustee to support his motion to treat MF Global Holdings Ltd. as a person rather than a corporation in a New York bankruptcy case, the client announced Tuesday.

Adam Furgatch said he sent a letter to MF Global Inc. trustee James Giddens on Thursday, asking him to stand behind his argument that since the U.S. Supreme Court has held that corporations should be treated as...